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Fedora Linux 43 aims to speed up boot time and reduce disk usage by switching initrd compression to zstd by default.

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KDE’s Amarok 3.3 music player lands with a switch to Qt6/KF6, a new GStreamer-based audio engine, and better database and emoji support.

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KDE Plasma 6.3.6 enhances tablet and multi-monitor support, updates brightness handling, and fixes notification quirks.

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Wine 10.12 is out with optional EGL backend, Bluetooth Low Energy support, and various bug fixes, including improvements for games and system utilities.

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Linux configuration files are often plain text, which makes them easily editable using command-line tools. Among the most powerful of these are sed and awk.

While beginners may rely on manual editing with vi or nano, experienced system administrators frequently turn to these tools for automated parsing and rewriting of configuration files.

These tools allow you to match patterns, extract fields, and even make real-time changes to configuration files all from the command line or scripts.

In this article, we will explore how to use sed and awk to read, parse, and rewrite config files effectively. We’ll walk through practical examples that can help automate tedious tasks like updating IP addresses, changing parameters, or extracting values.

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Rescuezilla 2.6.1 comes almost four months after Rescuezilla 2.6 with a new build derived from the Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” operating system to provide users with the best possible hardware support. Ubuntu 24.10, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS builds are still available for download.

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ProtonUp-Qt 2.13 improves Lutris support and adds new compatibility layers for better game performance across multiple Linux launchers.

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Sudoers is the default sudo security policy plugin in Linux; however, experienced system administrators can specify a custom security policy as well as input and output logging plugins. It is driven by the /etc/sudoers file or, alternatively by LDAP.

You can define sudoers options like the insults option or several others in the file /etc/sudoers. It is set under the Defaults entries section. Read through our last article, which explains 10 Useful Sudoers Configurations for Setting ‘sudo’ in Linux.

In this article, we will explain a sudoers configuration parameter to enable an individual or system administrator to set sudo command to insult system users who enter the wrong password.

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KDE Plasma 6.3.6 comes two months after KDE Plasma 6.3.5 with improved keyboard navigation of the System Tray widget’s pop-up, improved Power And Battery widget to no longer prompt users to install the power-profiles-daemon if the system doesn’t support it, and improved support for the Environment Canada provider in the Weather Report widget.

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Coming a month after GNOME 48.2, the GNOME 48.3 release adds support for more video/audio types in Nautilus’ search filter, adds a limit to the number of visual alerts displayed by Mutter to comply with the European Accessibility Act (EAA), and adds missing accessibility labels in various components across the GNOME Shell.

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The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the July 2025 issue. With the exception of a brief period in 2009, The PCLinuxOS Magazine has been published on a monthly basis since September, 2006. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is a product of the PCLinuxOS community, published by volunteers from the community. The magazine is led by Paul Arnote, Chief Editor, and Assistant Editor Meemaw. The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license, and some rights are reserved. All articles may be freely reproduced via any and all means following first publication by The PCLinuxOS Magazine, provided that attribution to both The PCLinuxOS Magazine and the original author are maintained, and a link is provided to the originally published article.

In the July 2025 issue:

* ICYMI: N Korean Hackers Use Fake Identities To Land Remote US Tech Jobs
* Wiki Pick: Restore Grub2
* GIMP Tutorial: GIMP 3.0 Review
* Typst Cookbook: Part Three
* PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner: Quick Garlic Butter Steak Noodle
* And much more inside!

This month’s cover was created by parnote.

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With SUSE’s help, European companies and governments can ensure their IT support, software, and data assets are safe from American snooping and control.

The post Suse Launches New European Digital Sovereignty Support Service to Meet Surging Demand appeared first on Linux Today.

This is a review of the BrosTrend USB WiFi 6 Adapter. It supports Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Ubuntu Mate, and other distributions.

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pqcscan is an open-source tool that lets users scan SSH and TLS servers to see which Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms they claim to support. It saves the results in JSON files. You can turn one or more of these files into an HTML report that opens in a web browser.

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Coming four months after Blender 4.4, the Blender 4.5 LTS release finally makes the Vulkan backend stable, improving its performance and also adding support for OpenXR, Subdivision, USD/Hydra, and other features. On Linux, the Vulkan backend requires NVIDIA 550 or later for NVIDIA GPUs and Mesa 25.3 or later for AMD GPUs.

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PHP may drop its legacy license in favor of BSD 3-Clause in version 9.0, thereby enhancing compatibility and simplifying distribution rights.

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Options for installing software are a bit more limited with the RV2 compared with ARM-based single board computers. Let’s build a piece of open source software.

The post Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Building a Program appeared first on Linux Today.

A step-by-step guide to installing Docker on Rocky Linux 10, offering a solid Enterprise Linux foundation for containerized workloads.

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Kdenlive 25.04.3 open-source video editing software wraps up the 25.04 series with bug fixes for volume and transform effects.

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PhotoPrism’s July 2025 release introduces Ollama AI support, enhanced search capabilities, and a new map-based location tool.

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